Why use jasper reports?

[2006 JR Open Discussion]

By: venz98 - venz

Why use jasper reports?

2006-02-08 16:55

Hi!

 

I've just heard about jasper reports. My immediate boss wants to know my recommendation regarding this matter. Please help me

 

Can you give me the reasons why you are using jasper reports.

 

Thanks,

Venus

 

 

 

 

By: jasperkan - jasperkannan

RE: Why use jasper reports?

2006-02-10 17:02

the best available reporting tool in opensource at the moment.

full support of the Open source industry with SourceForge

GNLU licensed

Very flexible and powerful with features like subreports eg master /detail reports

easy database support with the data source customizable from a JDBC , Collection etc .

Can easily plugin custom java code for processin business logic of the returned data using Scriptlets

 

Very fast Features addition with full feature request support

 

Very good response/mailing support / user groups community with direct mails from Teodar (father of Jasper Reports)

 

can make Dynamic reports at run time which is a big advantage compared to Crystal reports .

 

PS : I work in a product development company in insurance/benefits and use this tool. we were using crystal reports and switched to jasper since crystal wasnt allowing us to generate dynamic reports on the fly.

 

 

 

 

By: raffimd - raffimd

RE: Why use jasper reports?

2006-02-13 01:05

Hi Kannan,

Can you please share little more on how do you make use of jasperReports to define the dynamic reports. Is it by passing parameters?

 

Thanks,

Raffi

 

 

By: jasperkan - jasperkannan

RE: Why use jasper reports?

2006-02-14 09:50

u can conditionally show/hide a field based on PrintWhenExpression

 

dynamically change the label of a column by using a java expression which check for a flag and display the field header differntly.

$P{REPORT_FOR}.equals("A")?"MEMBER":"BILLING"